Tulsi Gabbard Dodges When Confronted on Marco Rubio Refuting Her Claims Against Obama

President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, joined the White House press briefing on Wednesday and took questions related to her accusation that former President Barack Obama engaged in a “treasonous conspiracy.” Gabbard and Trump have publicly accused Obama of somehow helping to create the Trump-Russia collusion narrative in 2016, which led to multiple investigations and the GOP-led Senate concluding that Russia did in fact try to interfere in the election to help Trump.

“Two questions, but to begin on that. The president yesterday—you’ve inferred–that the former president helped lead a coup. Based on what you now see, do you believe President Obama is guilty of treason?” asked CBS News White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe.

“I’m leaving the criminal charges to the Department of Justice. I am not an attorney, but as I’ve said previously, when you look at the intent behind creating a fake, manufactured intelligence document that directly contradicts multiple assessments that were created by the intelligence community, the expressed intent and what followed afterward can only be described as a year-long coup and a treasonous conspiracy against the American people, our republic, and an attempt to undermine President Trump’s administration,” Gabbard replied.

O’keefe followed up, “The Senate Intelligence Committee spent several years looking into this and unanimously agreed in a bipartisan fashion—Secretary of State Rubio was a member of that committee—that there was no political interference. There was a years-long Justice Department investigation into this as well that also concluded no political interference. So help us from a 50,000-foot level: explain what do you now have that refutes those two [conclusions]?”

“I will encourage you—in my role as the Director of National Intelligence, my job again, as I said when I came into this role, was to make sure that we are telling the truth to the American people and that we’re ensuring that the intelligence community is not being politicized,” Gabbard replied, adding:

So I’m not asking you to take my word for it; I’m asking you and the media to conduct honest journalism and the American people to see for yourself in the documents that we’ve released now—close to 200 pages that point to multiple references, multiple examples, to include comments that have been made by senior intelligence professionals, some still working within these agencies today, that confirm the conclusions that we have drawn: that President Obama directed an intelligence community assessment to be created to further this contrived, false narrative that ultimately led to a years-long coup to try to undermine President Trump’s presidency.

“And it’s your belief that those two previous investigations missed that or covered it up?” O’Keefe pressed.

“I’m telling you to look at the evidence—look at the evidence and you will know the truth,” replied Gabbard, having not pointed to any specifics from her “evidence” to refute the Rubio-led conclusion by the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2020.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.